Hey all, in the double macro vid you see that the browser list expands (and the decks collapse) when he goes in search mode…does anyone know where I can assign that function to a hotkey in the settings?
Add/Window/Layout/Window Layout #1
Add/Window/Layout/Window Layout #2
Add/Window/Layout/Window Layout 3 … etc
So you just assign the “Window Layout #N” command to the same key you use for “Deck Load Selected”. You then customise the layouts so that Layout#1 is your default working view and Layout#N is your “lots of files in view, minimized decks” view. Add another a key, like space, that you think of as your “open the file browser files” key that swaps to Layout#N and you’re done.
To use:
Press space to look for files, scroll to a file, hit the Deck Load button for the deck you want to load and it swaps back to the default view.
Simple.
Summary: I don’t really have a good solution yet. Organize by date into folders. Try to keep on top of the collection by reviewing old stuff. Embedded cover images would help, but the online music industry is a bit broken.
my music is organised by: artist\date - release\tracknumber( - artist if VA) - title
when I am playing though I tend to sort my music by BPM since it seems to help with defining the mood and pace…
album art would make a big difference too I recon.. one area where traktor is crap
I’m having trouble too with hitting the sync button and the tracks jump out of time. Not sure what is the correct way to keep the tunes in time. The pitch control is a joke to me on the vci and traktor. I guess because I am still used to working a 1200 pitch control.
Any advice on this topic?
any hawtin fans out there seen this in action? I’ve never been a big fan of his(although i am a little bit converted after this), so i havent seen him live. i’m wondering how often he really needs the 4 decks.. i guess with minimal it would be more common… im still working on mixing 2 decks and throwing a sample or loop on C :\
Props to him, though, for making it a little bit easier on all of us budding syncjockers ..ok ok, controllerists 
is the double macro ran in traktor or something third party?
I am looking into Trakker, might want to try that one.
thanks a lot! I got a much better view now when I go in search mode 
Is there a way of getting rid of the Traktor playlist altogether? That would be more ideal, especially if your using Trakker, have a smaller resolution or porting your audio into Ableton.
Anyone who can tell me how gets 5 midi messages 
Isn’t Trakker instead of the Traktor file browser?
I thought it was an independent program, until i just investigated further - turns out it implements itself into Traktor, which is pretty nifty. Given that i think i will give it a go tonight.
Either way i still wanna know how i can make the playlist disappear altogether, its taking up valuable screen real-estate when i am not using it :
Hopefully Trakker will allow me to do this goes off to install it.
It seems that it can only be done in windowed mode. Just uncheck the show browser from the layout options behind the right click.
Edit: I take that one back. It works in full screen mode and in windowed mode with custom size window, but not when you are in windowed mode and double click the title bar to set the window to cover the whole screen.
Just worked that out as you posted, but thanks heaps !
As it turns that also works as part of the different layouts, which is just friggen awesome !
Now when selecting tunes i can have the decks go small and the browser appear, then after putting a song on a deck the file browser can reappear. This is going to work absolutely awesome with Ableton.
does that mean u will have ableton up on the bottom half of your screen - for, at least, some of the time? sounds interesting. post a screen shot? or vid?
Ill write up an article about this trick and show a couple print screens of what it looks like and how to do it 
I really think its worth mentioning as its a great little trick that’s so easy to do !
cool. looking forward to it.
To me it was like the first thing to come to my mind, that i have to have the both windows visible during mixing. Still waiting for that 17" laptop, sigh.
Still planning on doing this article?
Now that we are on the subject (and totally of topic) an articel describing the idea of incorporating Ableton and Traktor would be fantastic. It seems like a lot of us (including my self) are interestet in the idea, but are having a hard time figuring out whats what.
Some people just have too much to do in too little time. 
Any of you guys know how to open the Track collection tree through at hotkey? I cant seem to find any commant in the list that does this.